micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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The walk signal will be parallel to the flow of traffic. Therefore, yes, a red light for traffic would mean that pedestrians are crossing your path, not going with it.
NYC is using "Leading Pedestrian Interval" on most intersections. This feature has been installed about 10 years ago. When the cross traffic light has turned red and your (the car driver's) traffic light is about to turn green, the pedestrian traffic light in the same direction turns green first. Your traffic light turns green a few seconds later, and the pedestrian light stays green. 15 seconds later, pedestrian light starts flashing red, and 30 seconds later both lights turn red at same time.
This few second advanced-pedestrian-green protects pedestrians from collisions with cars by allowing the squishy road users to saturate the crosswalk before the cars trying to make a right/left turn get a go. Cars making a turn have to wait. When both lights used to change green at same time, the drivers making a turn had too much temptation to just gun it across an intersection before the pedestrians reached the middle of it. NYC has very many intersections and very many pedestrians. This caused many collisions and injuries.
A 2019 city council law ammended the Administrative Code section 19-195 to clarify that bicyclists should use the advanced pedestrian green as well. This makes sense because bicyclists ride on the side of the road (in the right turn danger zone) and are in the squishy human category. NYPD hates bicyclists and ignores the law, pretending to "forget" it exists every time they write a citation violating it.
There are intersections where all lights stay red, giving pedestrians a walk sign in all directions.
There are also intersections where the walk sign turns on before the light goes green.
In both cases, the cyclist still needs to yield to pedestrians, but it seems they'd be legally allowed to ride through the red if it's clear.